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Chester Golf Club, a gift to the village from the Pew family.
1965
Chester Nova Scotia


Credits:
Chester Municipal Heritage Society

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Extended Family Quotes:

"Broiled salmon, baked trout with cream, omelette, broiled beefsteak, eggs, toast, wild honey, milk and coffee."
- Breakfast at Lovett House c. 1870 in Trout Fishing by Charles Hallock.


"the smaller number of houses, the livery stables, the blacksmith shops; the oxen hauling the loads, and many of the streets being grassy lanes. Everyone kept hens, everyone kept a cow, and every cow roamed the streets. Everyone carried a lantern when visiting neighbours after dark."
- Mrs. Wurts, née Wister, re life in Chester c. 1890 as quoted in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sept. 5, 1949.


"As I sit here on the sun porch of our summer home on Little Fish, writing this sketch, nothing could be more delightful than the outlook in every direction: the deep blue color of the water contrasting with dark green foliage of the islands and mainland with their rocky shores, the cool refreshing sea breezes blowing in from the ocean, all combine to offer to the tired professional or business man a haven of rest, where he can recuperate his tired faculties under ideal conditions."
- In A Surgeon's Life, 1940 by Dr. John Finney


"Chester is neither the abode of wealth nor resort of fashion, but simply a summer home where you can keep cool, live informally and enjoy life to the full."
- Hackmatack Inn brochure quoted in Sailors & Rattling Teacups by Claudette Sapp, p. 16


"Family legend has it that that's why my father came because he was accompanying his brother and his brother had bad hay fever."
- Sifford Pearre audio interview

"I think, in looking back over the intervening years, that I never did anything in all my life that turned out more satisfactorily than this investment, particularly as regards the health and well-being of my entire family."
- In A Surgeon's Life, 1940 by Dr. John Finney, p. 142